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Collaborating with the Mystery

From: Mary Quintas

Caption: Bud Brown with his trumpazoo and washboard, Credit: Mary Quintas

Bud Brown is known for singing Iris DeMent's "Let the Mystery Be". A few years ago, his relationship to the song changed: Bud's wife became termin...

Bought by XRAY.fm, PRX Remix, KALW, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

Added: Dec 13, 2014
Length: 07:41
Purchases: 4

StoryCorps: Roy Wilkins and Keith Melick

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Command Sergeant Major Roy Wilkins and Retired Army 1st Sergeant Keith Melick, who first crossed paths at war in 2004, talk about reuniting in a VA...

Bought by Blue Mountain Radio , WEZU, and WTJU

Added: Dec 09, 2014
Length: 03:44
Purchases: 3

Day Job 10: The Window Washer

From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job: How Musicians Pay The Rent (2014 Series)

Caption: Mike Notter of the Seattle bands Motopony and Hannalee cleans windows for a living, Credit: Joshua McNichols / Day Job

Mike Notter (currently with the bands Motopony and Hannalee) used to be in a band with a bunch of other window washers (Shim). Back then, cleaning ...

Bought by KUOW

Added: Dec 05, 2014
Length: 16:10
Purchases: 1

Why do we wait so long? Jackie’s Journey to a home.

From: D. 'Fitz' Allgood
Series: The Allgood News

Caption: Jackie taking a break from building her house.

Dreams can be as simple as a home and a flower garden. Jackie walked by the Habitat for Humanity application for 2 years.

Added: Dec 01, 2014
Length: 01:33

You Can't Play the Old Songs Forever

From: Annabel Lang

Caption: Peter Donnelly on the beach in Provincetown, Credit: Annabel Lang

Peter Donnelly is a singer/songwriter based in Provincetown, the famous gay paradise at the tip of Cape Cod. He's a local celebrity with national r...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and PRX Remix

Added: Nov 30, 2014
Length: 04:52
Purchases: 2

Ashley and the kidnapping of her canine Kiser!

From: D. 'Fitz' Allgood
Series: The Allgood News

Ashley went outside to call her best friend Kiser… she called his name, a long pause and then nothing, silence. Kiser was gone.

Added: Nov 24, 2014
Length: 01:38

StoryCorps: Maurice Rowland and Miguel Alvarez

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Miguel Alvarez (L) and Maurice Rowland (R) remember caring for residents at an assisted living home, where they were a janitor and a cook, when it ...

Bought by WRIR, Blue Mountain Radio , WTJU, and WEZU

Added: Nov 21, 2014
Length: 01:35
Purchases: 4

StoryCorps: Ron Riveira and Jason Deitch

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Hospice nurse and Retired Navy Corpsman Ron Riveira tells his friend, retired Army Medic Jason...

Bought by Blue Mountain Radio and WTJU

Added: Nov 17, 2014
Length: 03:58
Purchases: 2

Pass the lefse, please

From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices

Ask someone from out of state to describe Minnesota and you’ll probably hear a lot of “Minnesota Nice,” "uff dah’s" and "you betcha’s." Scandinavia...

Bought by KSRQ

Added: Nov 06, 2014
Length: 05:04
Purchases: 1

StoryCorps: Joanna and Bob Ebenstein

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Caption: Joanna Ebenstein holding a taxidermy two-headed duckling at the Morbid Anatomy Museum in Gowanus, Brooklyn.

Joanna Ebenstein, founder of the Morbid Anatomy Museum, tells her father, Bob, about the childhood...

Bought by WEZU, Radio Newark, and PRX Remix

Added: Oct 31, 2014
Length: 02:04
Purchases: 3

One Date, A War, One Smooch & A 65 Year Journey of One Class Ring…Reunited.

From: D. 'Fitz' Allgood
Series: The Allgood News

Caption: Don & the 'Ring!', Credit: The Allgood News

It was 1944, Don was about to ship off to war...

Added: Oct 28, 2014
Length: 02:03

Bay Area Beats: Teen musician Tatyana Martinez channels old school sound

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - Bay Area Beats

Eighteen-year-old Tatyana Martinez turned to writing poetry as a young girl to cope with big changes in her life. Over time, her poetry evolved int...

Added: Oct 27, 2014
Length: 04:38

RUDDERLESS -- Casey Twenter and Jeff Robison Interview

From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes

Casey Twenter and Jeff Robison talk chartreuse pants, staying in Oklahoma, and why William H. Macy is a prince.

Added: Oct 24, 2014
Length: 16:54

Chanukah, 1992

From: Dennis Funk

A night of recollections, moments and new memories.

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Oct 23, 2014
Length: 01:17
Purchases: 1

StoryCorps: Phil Mortillaro and Philip Mortillaro Jr.

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Phil and Philip Mortillaro, a father-and-son locksmith team, talk about the family business.

Bought by WTJU and WEZU

Added: Oct 22, 2014
Length: 02:16
Purchases: 2

Cobblestones: Jim Henson from A to Zoe

From: Andrew Hiller

Caption: Five-time Emmy Award winner Fran Brill, the first woman hired by Jim Henson for Sesame Street (seen here with Zoe) is retiring after 42 years , Credit: Jim Henson Legacy

Cobblestones: Jim Henson from A to Zoe is a sound rich special that includes original interviews, clips, music, and new skits with many of the orig...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Added: Oct 22, 2014
Length: 55:05
Purchases: 1

Chloe (age 4) Loves Horror Movies

From: Katy Sewall

Caption: Chloe (a little younger than 4) and her father Matt, Credit: Katy Sewall

Chloe loves watching horror movies. The catch: She's only four years old. How does her father feel about that? Very, very proud. Does that make h...

Bought by PRX Remix and KFAI Minneapolis

Added: Oct 17, 2014
Length: 03:26
Purchases: 2

auraul fixation

From: Nina Feldman

Emily McWilliams comes from a family of musicians. She always performed and written music: she's been playing the piano for 20 years and composes s...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix

Added: Oct 16, 2014
Length: 06:13
Purchases: 2

StoryCorps: Tina Vasquez and Sonia Vasquez

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Tina Vasquez tells her mother, Sonia Vasquez, about what it was like to grow up...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WRIR, WEZU, and WTJU

Added: Oct 16, 2014
Length: 01:59
Purchases: 4

StoryCorps: Kenny Thompson, Gary Barber and Dakota Gibson

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Caption: Dakota Gibson (left), Gary Barber (middle) and their mentor Kenny Thompson.

Kenny Thompson, a volunteer mentor, tells students Gary Barber and Dakota Gibson about discovering that...

Bought by WEZU

Added: Sep 23, 2014
Length: 02:12
Purchases: 1

StoryCorps: Rita Fischer and Jay Fischer

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Rita Fischer (90) and Jay Fischer (65) recall the moment that Jay came out as gay.

Bought by WEZU, Public Radio for All, and WTJU

Added: Sep 03, 2014
Length: 02:29
Purchases: 3

StoryCorps: Barbara Moore and Olivia Fite

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Caption: Olivia Fite (left) and her mother Barbara Moore.

Barbara Moore (R) tells her daughter, Olivia Fite (L), about becoming a bricklayer in the...

Bought by WVBI-LP, WXPR, WEZU, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KERA and more

Added: Aug 21, 2014
Length: 02:14
Purchases: 6

A Proust Questionnaire with Helen Oyeyemi

From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts

When and where were you happiest? Novelist Helen Oyeyemi answers a modified version of the Proust Questionnaire, a set of questions made famous by ...

Bought by KPIP-LP and PRX Remix